On 12 April 2016, the European Commission issued the proposed Directive for public Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting requirements in the EU. The requirements are similar to, but separate from the non-public CbC reporting requirements based on Action 13 of the OECD BEPS Project. The new public CbC requirement will apply under the EU Accounting Directive (Directive 2013/34/EU), which will be amended by the proposed Directive for this purpose. According to the explanatory memorandum included wi…